Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-08-24
qERE CELERY'S KING.
AAZOO'S THRIFTY HOLLAND
s. RECLAIM A BIG MARSH.

s. RECLAIM A BIG MARSH.
Tn housand Acres of Useless Swamp
T. 'ormed Into the Finest Celery
BE America-Fortunes Made at
the mess.
TT and around the fair and far
famed OF Kalamazoo that the celery
lord, III his innate pride and odor Of
garlic. best be found. Here his coat
OF arr lsisting of bunch of celery
pencha = silver dollar guardant, may
be seen y azoned on his armorial bear
ings nm fnzao on the faces Of the shop
lpecpers. re is L. that over !, 900 acres
of t.reela 8" land Is devoted 10 ths cul-
tivstion { crisp and toothsome stalk
that is e. with nerve strengthening
properties. ' Is saying that in Kala-
mazoo they ar by celery and at every
thing else latter proposition May be
q trifle harsl It the former is self evil
dent to any or. In spite OF tho fact
that Kalamal eads the country in light
vehicles, wine ills, harrows and many
ouher branche manufacture, she still
pins her faith hope and trust to tho
celery lands al o celery lords.
: LOW, asHY LANDS.
The 5000 &C of celery lands were
once next Of kin huge marsh. The
city is built on ,ht rise Of ground in
the midst of an ltensi7e valley. Be-
tween the origina lite of the town and
the foothills were 3 these low, marshy
lands. The Hollan s, who were raising
upland celery here, s~~are among the first
to discover that thu lowlands could be
drained and made t. pest celery lands in
the country. Succe | experiments re-
suited in a revolution The marshes, for
merly of little if any lue, Immediately
commanded an excel price In the real
estate market A lar, tract Of land al
most in the heart Of 70 city, which had
been left in its primitiII condition, was at
once seized upon and vided by far see
ting Hollanders into snd tracts, each one
OF which afforded an excellent living for
one of the good sized families for which
that nation Is famous.
After all the lands south and west of
the city had been devoted to celery culture
| the boom shifted to the north, and through
the pioneer efforts Of the late DR.. Uriah
| Upjohn another half mile o. thickly set
tied celery territory was added unto the
city. To reclaim" these lands only re-
quired the excavation of trenches leading
to the neighboring creeks. Then, with q
banking up of the sides, and, perhaps, a
little filing in, the lands were converted
into some of the richest soil which lies out
Of doors. There are no reliable celery
figures, but enough h known to warrant
the Kalamazulu for claiming for his city
the celery championship Of the world.
The markets Of New York, Chicago, St.
Do s.Ti nrla oil
large cities are supplied from Kalamazoo
to San Francisco, Texas, Florida and New
England, arriving in excellent condition
after their long journey.
CAREFULLY PACKED.
The celery is carefully packed in boxes
holding from eight to fifty dozen, and Is
shipped by express and refrigerator cars.
During the buster season over dozen e1-
ira wagons are put on by the express COM
panies to transfer the product to the out
going trains, and the streets seem to wit
ness the continuous passage of an attractive
celery procession. Time was when the
season lasted but from September to jan
uary, but now the demand is incessant
and the capability Of the Hollander &C
cordingly elastic, and the shippers are idle
only during the months Of April and May.
This year the first celery came into mar
ket June 8, or nearly three weeks ahead
of the average year. The first shipments
were made June IS, and it goes without
saying that Chicago was the objective
point. The old impression that celery
only went with oysters is now obsolete
1t is eaten the year round wherever it can
be obtained. The method Of bleaching
celery now in vogue doe not need = frost,
and June celery Ii just crisp and tender
as Is Septsrhaf, The ,duot ut Kalama-
ZOO viii closely al ~ oxinate /, 800, 600
dozen per annunl, x ch, at twenty-five
ceuta. brings In $s75, vUv. The husiness
"a principally done by the buyers Il
many raisers ship their own product.
Celery raising has added lbs thousands
to the population of the city. Not a week
goes by without witnessing the arrival OF
forty or fifty Hollanders, who plod stoieally
through the streets in their wooden shoes
and soon become absorbed in celery raising
and form part Of the great common
wealth In the eyes Of the residents of
the city these people are nation by them
selves, resembling nothing in the heaven
above or earth beneath They are called
| "Celerysn-gimply that and nothing more.
They make good citizens, however, and
native born inhabitants are reasonably
| proud of them. They have done one
thing, at any rate-they have demon
strated that the wilderness may be made
to blossom as the rose, and that q homely
and malaria infected marsh may be
converted into q rich soil, In which may
| be raised the toothsoIne and crisp celery
the alleged great nerve food.-Eugene
| Browne in Chicago Herald.